Red

It was pretty interesting reading Red. While reading this book I had so many mixed emotions with the book. There were times I was frustrated and annoyed while reading all the stories of these young girls. As frustrated as I was with their stories, somehow some of the girl’s stories were able to put a smile on my face because I could somehow relate to them. With some of the girl’s stories I was able to see myself at their age and how I was so much them. For example, Jocelyn’s story about the boy she had a crush on was one that took me back in my teen days. The story reminded me when I was thirteen years old and the day this new cute boy came to my school. I remember from the first day I saw him I had butterflies and I developed a crush that would last all the two years we had together in the same school. Unlike one of the girls in the book who had the courage to ask out the guy she liked, with me I never had the guts to even tell that boy how much I liked him. Even the day he asked me out, I refused to be his girlfriend. The fact that I was raised by parents who always told me I should never have a boyfriend until I’m done with school. I was young and afraid to have a boyfriend because somehow I thought my parents would found out, even though they were in a different continent. They surely would’ve been proud me.
After all, even though sometimes I was irritated reading the book, I believe that one of the reason was because I felt as if I was opening my diary and these days I can't stand reading my daily. Sometimes when I read it I see the naïve and vulnerable young girl I used to be, but yet at the time I thought I knew it all.

My young adult novel

Looking back at my past and present life, I feel as if I’ve been through so much in life that somehow if I decided to write a novel, my stories would have a little truth with my personal life. This story I will write on is somehow like my life, but most of isn’t really true about my personal life.
I would like to write about a story of 15 years young girl name Diana, who always had a dream to leave her home and go experienced the world. Diana grew up in a third world country where the community she lived in was full of people with broken dreams, no dreams or had never had a chance to fulfill their dreams. Unlike her friends, Diana had bigger dreams for herself. One of her goal was to leave her country and go to the United State. One day her school decided to give away few scholarships to some of the most outstanding student to go to the U.S.A, and Diana was one them. When Diana moved to the U.S.A, her life changed drastically. She had no family, friends, nor did she speak English. For few years she struggles to fit in the new culture, but founds it hard because she has nobody to relate to. Even though Diana had always had a dream to come to the U.S.A, she later begins to feel lonely and she starts to wonder if she made the best choice of leaving everything she knew. Throughout the book I’ll explain all the struggled she had to face with the new culture. In the end she has to choose to either go back to her homeland or stay in the U.S.A where she had many opportunities to fulfill her dreams.